Last Saturday, Live Wire held a comedy writing workshop with John Viener and Alec Sulkin from "Family Guy." Read more

Do you enjoy sketch writing? Are you working on a comic screenplay? Or do you just want to inject some more humor into your writing? 

Live Wire is sponsoring a comedy writing workshop with John Viener and Alec Sulkin of "Family Guy." Join us on Saturday, February 20th from 1-4 at Curious Comedy Theater to learn more about the three-act structure, to do a little writing, and analyze some gags. 

Sulkin is a supervising producer and writer for the show and has been nominated for three Emmys.Viener is an actor, writer and director but has only been nominated for ONE Emmy. Awkward!Read more

COURT: Gosh, that was pretty.

JOHN: You're such a girl.Read more

JOHN: What if outside the operatic world it was commonplace to repeat everything you say oRead more

COURTENAY: So here we are at opening night Portland Opera's Cosi Fan Tutte. It's my first opera, and I'm as giddy as a really, really fucking old schoolgirl. Read more

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We LOVE November! The candy hangover is still fresh, the city smells like newly wet asphalt mixed with rotting leaves, and the promise of overcooked turkey with strangers disguised as family is in the air.

But better than all of that, it's when Willamette Week launches its annual holiday fundraising program, the Give!Guide.

WHY GIVE TO LIVE WIRE
So many reasons! We employ artists, we are independent of OPB (so don't get direct funding from them), and, like all arts organizations, we rely on contributions to keep ticket prices lower. (Yes, unlike that Wings reunion tour your parents dragged you to, only 50% of the ticket price covers our costs.)  Read more

Not sure if you've heard, but local radio station KUFO recently let go of some of their more popular radio personalities, including Cort and Fatboy and Rick Emerson. What they've replaced these fun, smart, nerdy-in-the-best-possible-way guys with are some pretty awful d-baggy fellows from out of town. (Oh, and Marconi, who pulled this classy move a few years ago in Portland). Mike Russell of Culture Pulp fame wrote a great blog entry about the whole thing here.Read more

Blogger Sara Young of 20 Dates in 20 Weekends spent her final date at Live Wire's July show. We sent her and her date out to Tastebud Farms and then asked them both to read a haiku about how the date was going. Here's Sara's final date blog post for your reading pleasure:

Date#20: Not a Moment Too Soon

The final date of my experiment was to be a momentous one.  I was to take my date, Clark, to Live Wire!; a local vaudevillian radio show which occurs monthly at the Aladdin Theatre and airs on OPB.  The people who run the show offered us a dinner beforehand at a little place across the street called Tastebud Farm and the opportunity to read our first date Haikus during the second part of the show.  I was a bit tentative because one of my previous dates had set this opportunity up for me, and I was feeling a bit guilty because I had not behaved in a sane manner in my dealings with him.    Additionally, I was filled with feelings of excitement and remorse about this, my final date.  I was very happy to be close to being finished and also a little sad that it was ending.  My experiment had been like a close friend over the past several months, and the work it provided me would be missed.  I was already trying to come up with something else to write about, but had to this point come up empty.Read more

I was unlucky enough to miss last year's Armory show with Reggie Watts (damn you, fat camp! Damn you to heck!), but this year I'll be there to see the funny. The weird. The weirdly funny. And the musical wonder that is Reggie and his looping box. I got to see all of it when Jessie Thorn came to town to tape his show Sound of Young America at the Bagdad Theater and voila, there was Reggie. Read more